HSW Advisor: Zero-Harm Safety Lead (Nuclear Build) – Remote

Balfour Beatty plc; Lowestoft; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Smart working

25 days annual leave (pro rata)

Family friendly policies (maternity/ad

Pension & share plan

Job summary

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a proactive HSW professional to monitor and influence health, safety and wellbeing across Sizewell C’s construction programme, from design through to handover.

You will review project documentation, lead investigations, deliver training with HR, and promote a zero-harm culture while ensuring governance and regulatory compliance.

A NEBOSH General Certificate and CSCS competence, plus experience in complex civils projects, are essential.

Qualifications

• Ability to influence and promote a positive HSW culture.
• Competence in incident & accident investigation.
• Strong understanding of UK Health and Safety Regulatory Framework & UK Business Management System.
• Ability to prepare formal written reports and publications on HSW topics.
• Ability to undertake project planning, project management and work to budgets.
• Demonstrate commitment to continual learning to refine, further develop and apply expertise to add distinctive value to customers and CWA.
• Broad experience of complex construction and civils projects.
• Construction Skills Certification Scheme (CSCS) competence.
• Ability to engage and converse at all levels.
• Strong understanding and experience of the construction and civil engineering process, including constraints and requirements of specialist heavy‑civils operations.

Responsibilities

• Review and update Project documentation.
• Ensure compliance to the BMS as well as testing the effectiveness of its various components in controlling risk and delivering continuous improvement.
• Ensure compliance to the business emergency planning.
• Monitor emerging, new and revised legislation to assess its impact on the business.
• Ensure that lessons learned from monitoring/incidents are communicated and adopted.
• Deliver training and advisory sessions to personnel and contractors in conjunction with HR teams.
• Setting to Work.
• Fact Finders (including Just / Fair Culture).
• Occupational Health (OH).
• Plant & Vehicle Marshal (PVM).
• BMS Familiarisation.
• Support the delivery of the Behavioural (Make Safety Personal – MSP) Programme.
• Share learning across projects and business streams.
• Ensure a relentless focus on Zero Harm and the Zero Harm Events Calendar.
• Support the projects to ensure safety leadership teams (SLT) are engaged.
• Promote the reporting of Close Calls throughout the business ensuring that actions are taken and feedback delivered.
• Deliver Safety Cascades informing projects of relevant safety alerts, fast facts and lessons learnt.
• Promote telematics and safe driving behaviours.
• Assist the projects to deliver effective planning stages through compliance and reliability.
• Be able to plan and monitor performance on SMART Objectives.
• Ability to communicate and promote a positive Health & Safety Culture.

Skills

Influence & promote HSW culture

Incident & accident investigation

UK Health & Safety regulation

Formal written reports

Project planning & budgeting

Continual learning

Complex construction & civils projects

CSCS competence

Stakeholder engagement

Heavy civils operations knowledge

Education

NEBOSH General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

Tools

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Balfour Beatty plc is seeking a proactive HSW professional to monitor and influence health, safety and wellbeing across Sizewell C’s construction programme, from design through to handover.

You will review project documentation, lead investigations, deliver training with HR, and promote a zero-harm culture while ensuring governance and regulatory compliance.

A NEBOSH General Certificate and CSCS competence, plus experience in complex civils projects, are essential.